Chapter 153: The God of Judgment

Brazil in this World Cup has a 3R forward line in the frontcourt, with double cards, Cafu and Carlos on the side, Ze Roberto and Júño in the midfield, and Rucio, Aldair, and Juninho in the backfield.

Scolari is because of his great results with the club in Brazil! The head coach of Brazil, many people say that Scolari's 02 World Cup won the championship by relying on 3R, but they don't know that the 3R combination was created by Scolari!

Scolari abandoned Romario with the best crowd base in the game, and let the fledgling Ronaldo be the main force, the biggest striker in Brazil at that time was Romario, although Romario, who was 36 years old at the time, still has top shooting ability, and has a good number of goals in all competitions!

In fact, the strongest and most promising team in 2002 is the French team, the 98 World Cup, the 2000 European Cup double champion, the lineup is star-studded, the three lines are balanced and the main stars are in the year of the French is the most optimistic.

Coach Bielsa played the 343 formation that looked crazy that year, and swept South America's giants, including Brazil, in the qualifiers, and qualified with a huge advantage of 12 points ahead of the second place.

On the contrary, Ronaldo in the Brazilian team has been injured since the 98 World Cup, and did not return until the 2002 World Cup.

And Rivaldo had just recovered from injury at the time, no one knew what the state was, Xiao Luo was just a newcomer at the time, and he couldn't compare with him at all, the captain Cafu on the back line was almost 40, and the back Gilberto and Kleberson were also unknown players.

In 1998, France played Brazil 3-0, the lineup was too strong, and the top scorers in the five major leagues accounted for one, but France without Zidane immediately softened, and the group stage fancy various upsets were out, and the Netherlands, who fought to penalties in the semifinals with Brazil 4 years ago, also did not enter the finals by themselves.

The old enemy Argentina's lineup is also very luxurious, but in the group stage, he met two old fritters from England and Sweden, and he didn't play well.

Portugal, the golden generation, was very fierce in the Euro 00 Cup, second only to France in strength, who knew that the first game of the group stage began to die, was cleaned up by the United States team, and finally was beaten by the stick in the group stage.

Italy also continued to heat up slowly in the group stage, and who knew that it also encountered a dead stick, and the result was too! Brazil also played Germany and England, two traditional powerhouses, in the 02 World Cup Cup.

In terms of the overall strength of the two teams, Brazil was not stronger than Germany at that time, and occupied an absolute advantage!

Jones was in the dressing room, listening to Scolari talk about tactics, and after that, the players began to enter, and it was the bald referee Collina who officiated the game.

Just as this game has achieved five-star Brazil, it has also achieved the god of refereeing Collina, every time you see Collina, people will naturally think of Ronaldo, Zidane, Beckham, and the figures who once dominated world football.

Although Collina is not as star-studded as a player, and he can never be the great hero on the pitch who decides the victory, his eagle-like sharp eyes, keen insight into everything that happens on the pitch, and always set the fairest balance for great games, he is Ronaldo in the refereeing world, and is synonymous with the top of referees.

He was named the World Referee of the Year six times, the Serie A Referee of the Year seven times, and was inducted into the Italian Football Hall of Fame in 2011.

In 2013, the International Federation of Football History and Statistics compiled a ranking of the world's best referees for the last 25 years from 1987 to 2012, and Collina ranked first ahead of Merck, the former German golden whistle.

In the 2002 World Cup final in South Korea and Japan, Ronaldo reached the top, and Corina undoubtedly stood at the peak of his refereeing career, so it was very reasonable for him to officiate the final, and it was something that most fans wanted to see.

02 World Cup Italy prematurely out, but also let Collina naturally complete this historical mission, the World Cup practice is that after the semi-finals, there are four semi-finals of the national referee basically home, because four years later in Germany, 46-year-old Corina will not be qualified as an international referee because he is over 45 years old.

This World Cup is also his last, and the enforcement of this final did not cause any controversy, and Corina really handed over the game to the players.

And he suffered from alopecia at the age of 24, so he was called a bald referee, and the bald hairstyle made him more attractive.

During the 2002 World Cup, when the Chinese media interviewed Corina and asked him if he had any players who had exchanged jerseys with him after the game, Corina said: "In my refereeing career, what happens after the game is always interesting, so far, no player has asked to exchange jerseys with me. ”

"What left a deep impression on me was that during the women's football match at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, after the group stage between the Chinese team and the United States, a Chinese player named Sun Wen came up to me and asked to take a photo with me."

"At that time, there was going to be the next game on that field, and as a result, we took pictures in front of tens of thousands of spectators, but I didn't expect that after I took a photo with Sun Wen, all the Chinese players ran over and took pictures with me in turn, and that time, it was so interesting."

In the 2002 World Cup, Corina took home 40,000 US dollars in 42 days of World Cup work, and according to the statistics of the Italian Referees Federation, Corina's total income in 2001 was about 113,000 pounds, but after receiving the first advertisement in 2000, Corina must have had a lot of commercial income.

The jersey worn by Ronaldo in the 2002 World Cup final, the jersey worn by Hamann in the World Cup final, are all at Collina's house, and the football at the end of the game, the 1998-1999 Champions League final, the shirts of Stam and Sauer are also in Collina, and the jersey worn by Zidane in the 2000 France vs. Spain game was also collected by Collina.

And Corina's daughter Lolina forcibly took possession of Beckham's jersey in the 2002 World Cup Anglo-Argentine game, and she is not ready to return the jersey, and in an interview Corina also revealed: "They don't understand football at all and don't watch football, they only love Beckham, because they are only obsessed with his appearance, and after a Real Madrid game, they brought them back a Beckham signed jersey, and the two poor girls were so happy that they almost turned their backs." ”

My favorite quote from Corina: In five seconds, you walked the steps leading to the court, and yet, I stood in the middle of thousands of people, and all I felt was loneliness.